December 7, 2022
QUOTE
If you can walk away from a landing, it’s a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it’s an outstanding landing.
--Chuck Yeager
BIRTHDAYS
1863 – Richard Warren Sears, Businessman, co-founded Sears
1923 – Ted Knight, Actor and comedian
1924 – Bent Fabric, Danish pianist and composer
1942 – Harry Chapin, Singer-songwriter and guitarist
IN MEMORY
1817 – William Bligh, English admiral and politician, 4th Governor of New South Wales
1984 – LeeRoy Yarbrough, Race car driver
1989 – Haystacks Calhoun, Wrestler and actor
2011 – Harry Morgan, Actor
2020 – Chuck Yeager, Aviator
IN ON THIS DAY
1703 – The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, makes landfall. Winds gust up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people die.
1842 – First concert of the New York Philharmonic, founded by Ureli Corelli Hill.
1917 – The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary.
1930 – W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts telecasts video from the CBS radio orchestra program, The Fox Trappers. The telecast also includes the first television advertisement in the United States, for I.J. Fox Furriers, which also sponsored the radio show.
1932 – German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.
1941 – The Imperial Japanese Navy carries out a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
1972 – Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, is launched. The crew takes the photograph known as The Blue Marble as they leave the Earth.